The Howard Stern Thread

Artie sounds so relaxed ...

yesterday's episode was really special from beginning to end. starting with harry nilsson, howie getting emotional in the elevator, jewel interview, mercury in retrograde...

I loved the announce bits and Howard trying to one-up Broadway Bill....W C! BS had me in tears

I must have missed the Harry Nillson part?

dont forget the goofing on the cbs oldies dj, which was amazing.

xpost

yah i dont remember harry nilsson either?

"You're Breakin' My Heart" was played at the very beginning of the show. I listen to the show on demand on Sirius, and usually they play a couple songs or bits before "American Nightmare"

anyone heard the artie podcast where he and Stuttering John talk? then he kept talking about howard for a week.

calstars, your thoughts

oh, does artie keep talking about H on subsequent podcasts? If so, will listen...

The Marci stuff, if true, doesn't bother me. I just wish he'd spend more time goofing and less on interviews with celebrities that were A-list 20 years ago.

John is such a dumbazz, even moreso than Gary...still putting up with all the goofing from Artie. Feel so bad for the guy.

howard talked about the podcast this week, he went into a whole "we love & miss artie, we wish him the best, we did great work together" speech, was bummed out about a disparaging & false story that said artie was talking shit... it was really sweet :'(

emily blunt interview rn is great

sidewalk bumps for the blind

I didn't know about the Artie Quitter podcast until seeing it mentioned in this thread the other day. I had a long drive, so I checked out Artie's show from last Monday where he started it out talking about Stern's show uninterrupted for about 50 minutes straight. I can't remember the last time I found myself hanging onto his every word like that. It kinda made me miss his era of the show even more. I was expecting a reaction from Stern the following day (last Tuesday I guess), but was kinda sad to hear that it wasn't acknowledge at all. I'm happy Howard discussed it this week though. I guess it took him a few days to get around to it.

Now when I walk around the city I see those bumps on every corner

right the never told before story about getting a girl pregnant in l.a. and she gets an abortion...
long rumination on how if the kid was born here probably be on the long list of people who don't want to talk to him because he's a self destructive asshole and he didn't want howard to be on the list
then iiilistened to the show where howard threw a surprise birthday party for artie
and they haven't really spoken in six years

sounds like I should check out Artie's podcast.

it's strange, but perhaps not that strange, that he could be so funny on the show while his stand-up is pretty bad (imo).

artie podcast was good for exactly 2 days while the howard stuff happened and now it back to being sucky and artie is pretty "wahhhhh love me daddy" with the whole "howard doesnt call me!" stuff. like dude you did heroin while you were at the studio fuck off.

Artie's standup has always been *surprisingly* unfunny IMO

Except that bit about truly being scared of gays and dicks and how he's not ashamed to be homophobic. I heard it in a bumper maybe 10 years ago when I started listening regularly again

Right before KC got the axe

Artie needs a foil to be funny, someone to compete against. These current guys are not on his level obv, and I guess neither was Nick Dip a couple years back.

sure he did heroin in the studio but probably accompanied by richard or sal? singing ARTIE SNORTS HEROIN ARTIE SNORTS HEROIN or recordings of him in withdrawal calling "hey, gar, it's artie..." over sound effects of lines being chopped. he wasn't like a receptionist in a dental office or something.

if anyone said hey, that fat drug addict we hired off a story about snorting cocaine and who later admitted to being a heroin addict and who we saw repeatedly nodding off and having violent outbursts in the studio... that guy takes drugs??? IN THE STUDIO???? i dunno.

Wahhhhh

I have a feeling that when it's all over there might be a torrent of embittered books and articles from the key players, and probably the periphery.

― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 May 2013 08:02 (2 years ago)

looking forward to stuttering john's book

I think in the unlikely event, that Fred went all out Goldman, his would be interesting.

I was thinking while listening to the Artie/John podcast how deadening it must be to be in a world when your supposed friends and colleagues can say horrible, shitty things to your face and you can't defend yourself because it's just 'busting chops'

Like Artie seems just to do this binary thing all the time *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding* *horrible comment* *nah, I'm just kidding*

i dunno. i think john/artie is pretty mild and they've got some sort of friendship and respect and are both successful at what they do and have made a ton of cash and it's generally funny.

but i've listened intently to hours and hours of stern and my favorite moments are supposed friends and colleagues saying horrible things to each other.

Artie loves pancakes
He eats them up with chocolate cakes
He's gaining so much goddamn weight
Cause Artie loves pancakes

XP - Yea, I was probably just a little grouchy when I was listening.

I downloaded the Booey 25 special this week, been enjoying a lot of that.

i fucking hate jeff the drunk. chellllllllo!

reminds me that those clips of people yelling out bababooey (and, at least once, "chello!") at golf tournaments are reliably amusing 

yeah i always love those. bobo should be banned for life, hanzi too, but jeff the drunk has been getting too much airtime lately

i love hanzi even though he's crossed that threshold into playing a character on the show rather than being his crazy self.

john is a fucking shithead scumbag loser.

john sucks, the artie era was great, but i like the show better without him. but i could always use more benjy.

benjy is the most underused/under-appreciated member of the staff. he's consistently brilliant and knows when to hang back

I appreciated Artie giving Benjy his due props upon revealing that Howard uses "99%" of his jokes. I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but probably not too far off from reality.

how else could he keep his job for 17-18 years? every now and then ill hear something and immediately recognize it as a benjy joke, but artie prob isn't exaggerating that much

It must drive Fred crazy when H praises that stupid drum/guitar duo. The part H orgasms over is dead simple.

fred likes them too

what intro, the rob zombie song?

wonder where the bleeding deacons are now

i loved the auction winner that sat in on monday. howard: "i like you, by the way"

as mentioned upthread, the coffee really fucking turbo charged H yesterday...speaking twice as fast as normal...it's great

it was cute how into claire danes he was

all the october shows disappeared from On Demand on the Sirius app...this happenening to anyone else?

yes. very weird.